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The Elevator Pitch For ‘The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption’

The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption

I consider knowing how to make a good elevator pitch one of my best kept marketing secrets, so I thought that I’ll make a quick elevator pitch for ‘The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption’.

‘The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption’ is my year-long blog-as-a-book experiment in why we choose to consume, or not.

The book is a record of two parallel quests — my quest as an individual to find the formula to turn consumerism-caused ennui into happiness, and my quest as a marketer to learn how to apply that formula to convert our collective ennui from consumption into a yelp of enthusiasm for consuming even more.

When the book is published in hard cover, you’ll have to pay a few hundred rupees to read it. However, you can read the book online, absolutely free, months before others read it in print. In fact, you should subscribe to the book in a feed reader, or by e-mail so that you don’t miss any chapters.

Here are three reasons why you should subscribe to the book today itself –

Quick Poll: Is ‘The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption’ A ‘Reality Show’?

I’m totally amazed (and a little embarrassed) by the amount of conversation generated by my laundry situation both offline and online (especially on Twitter).

Now, some of my friends are suggesting that I get myself some life-casting equipment and convert this blog into a video reality show!

First, I never intended this experiment to become a reality show; a year of my life is worth more than that. Insights into why we consume? Yes! A new way to live a simple(r) life? Yes! A multi-million dollar book deal? Yes! A reality show? No way!

Second, after my 60 hour work week, and my other online avatars, I’m finding it difficult to find time to write even one post a day. Even thinking about doing a live video show is madness.

Third, even if I had the time and the inclination to turn this experiment into a reality show, who would want to watch it? I’m not particularly attractive (not in a Paris Hilton way, anyways), I live a rather simple life (no, really, I do), I’ll be living an even more simple life (as you’ll find out) and I don’t intend to write really personal posts about my love life here (I have another, less visible, blog for that). So, who’ll want to watch videos of me making cheese + banana + capsicum sandwiches for dinner every night?